SC’98 iGrid
Empowering Global Research Community Networking
University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University
International Grid Research Demonstrations
SuperComputing ’98 High Performance Networking and Computer Conference
November 1998 Orlando, Florida
What is iGrid?
iGrid Applications
Applications in education, environmental hydrology, cosmology, medical imaging, molecular biology, and manufacturing use technologies such as remote instrumentation control, tele-immersion, real-time client server systems, multimedia, tele-teaching, digital video, distributed computing and high-throughput, high-priority data transfers. These applications and technologies depend on end-to-end delivery of multi-tens-of-megabits bandwidth with quality of service control, and need the capabilities of emerging Internet protocols for resource control and reservation.
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3DIVE-3D Interactive Volume Explorer for Collaborative Investigation of Medical and Scientific Volumetric Data [USA] Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA |
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Architectural Walk-Through Coupled with a Parallel Lighting Simulation [Netherlands, USA] Academic Computing Services Amsterdam (SARA), The Netherlands; Calibre bv, The Netherlands |
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Constrained Navigation Techniques for Collaborative Virtual Environments [USA] Indiana University, USA |
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Construction of Numerical Wind Tunnel Based on Design Procedure: From Aircraft Geometric Definition To Aircraft Flow Solutions [Taiwan, USA] National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; National Chioa-Tung University, Taiwan; National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan; University of Minnesota, USA |
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Digital Video (DV) Stream on IEEE 1394 Encapsulated into IP Over the Long-Distance, High-Speed Internet Link [Japan, USA]; WIDE Project, Keio University, Japan |
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Distributed Virtual Reality Technology in Collaborative Product Design [Germany, USA] National Center for Supercomputing Applications (in cooperation with Caterpillar, Inc.), USA; German National Research Center for Information Technology, (GMD), Germany |
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Education ICT Network Segment at Moscow State University [Russia, USA] Moscow State University, Russia |
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Exploring CAVERNsoft Tele-Immersive Collaboratories through the iGrid Portal [Singapore, Australia, Japan, USA] EVL, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, USA; Virtual Reality Medicine Lab, UIC, USA; Northwestern University, USA; Old Dominion University, USA; Institute of High Performance Computing, National University of Singapore (in cooperation with Motorola), Singapore; Tokyo University, Japan; ACSys CRC, Australian National University, Australia; Indiana University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA; Virginia Tech, USA |
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The Ganymede Telebot, an Enabling Technology for Teleconferencing [USA] EVL / UIC, USA |
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GiDVN: Globe internet Digital Video Network [Singapore, USA] International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University, USA; Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, USA; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore |
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IMSRacer [USA] Lawrence Technological University, USA; University of Michigan, USA |
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Industrial Mold Filling Simulation Using an Internationally Distributed Software Component Architecture [Canada, USA] Indiana University, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, USA; Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Industrial Materials Institute, NRC, Quebec, Canada; Centre de Recherche en Calcul Appliqué (CERCA), Montréal, Canada |
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IUPUI Future Camp [USA] Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA |
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JavaCMS-A Java 3D Particle Collision Event Viewer Using a Distributed Object Database Management System [Switzerland, USA] Caltech, USA; CERN, Switzerland |
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Maximum Likelihood Analysis Of Phylogenetic Data [Singapore, Australia, USA] Indiana University, USA; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Cooperative Research Center, Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys CRC), Australia |
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Metacomputing and Collaborative Visualization [Germany, USA] Sandia National Laboratories, USA; Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA; High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), a division of RUS, the Computing Center of Stuttgart University, Germany |
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Metacomputing the Einstein Theory of Spacetime: Colliding Black Holes and Neutron Stars Across the Atlantic Ocean [Germany, USA] Max-Planck-Institut-fuer-Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Germany; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, USA; Washington University, USA |
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Parallel Computation of High-Speed Train Aerodynamics [Taiwan, USA] National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan; University of Minnesota, USA |
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Reciprocal Net-A Global Shared Database for Crystallography [USA] Indiana University, USA |
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Remote Visualization of Electron Microscopy Data [Japan, Singapore, USA] University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute (USC / ISI), USA; National Center for Electron Microscopy and Imaging Research, National Biomedical Computing Resource, and San Diego Supercomputer Center / NPACI, UCSD, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, USA; Osaka University, Japan; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Waseda University, Japan; National University of Singapore, Singapore |
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Tele-Manufacturing via International High-Speed Network [Singapore, USA] Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Indiana University, USA |
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TerraVision on the Grid: Interactive Immersive Fly-Throughs Using Distributed Image Servers [USA] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA; SRI International, USA |
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CAVERNsoft CAVERN, the CAVE™ Research Network, is an alliance of research and industrial institutions equipped with CAVEs, ImmersaDesks, and high performance computing resources, interconnected by high-speed networks to support collaboration in design, training, education, scientific visualization, and computational steering - using virtual reality. Supported by advanced networking on both the national and international level, CAVERN focuses on tele-immersion - the union of networked virtual reality and video in the context of significant computing and data mining. CAVERNsoft is the systematic software architecture for CAVERN. Being developed at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, CAVERNsoft is designed to enable the rapid construction of tele-immersive applications; to equip previously single-user applications with tele-immersive capabilities; and to provide a testbed for research in tele-immersion. The outcome of this research includes new techniques for network quality of service; database access for the recording and intelligent querying of tele-immersive sessions; collaborative information visualization; and mediating time and distance in tele-immersion. The following iGrid applications rely on CAVERNsoft:
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Globus The Globus toolkit is a set of services designed to support the development of innovative and high-performance networking applications. Globus services address key challenges that arise in wide-area, multi-institutional environments, such as communication, scheduling, security, information, data access, and fault detection. They make it possible, for example, for applications to locate suitable computers in a network and then apply them to a particular problem, or to organize communications effectively in tele-immersion systems. Globus services are used both to develop higher-level tools (e.g., CAVERNsoft, LSA) and directly in applications (e.g., Cactus). The Globus toolkit is the work of a multi-institutional research and development team that is centered at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern California, but also involves other institutions within the USA and around the world. Many Globus partners participate in the Globus Ubiquitous Supercomputing Testbed Organization (GUSTO), an international testbed for wide area computing. In addition to developing the toolkit, the Globus project team investigates research issues in security, resource management, communication methods, instrumentation, and other areas. The following iGrid applications rely on Globus:
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